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All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.

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Diana Wynne Jones
Age: 76 †
Born: 1934
Born: August 16
Died: 2011
Died: March 26
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Diana Gwyneth Jones
Well
Drive
Things
Later
Life
Imagination
Brain
Fact
Facts
Crib
Wells
Cab
Might
Insane

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